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• What follows in an article that is just beginning to make the rounds. It focuses on graduate students who are foreign nationals, and the need to keep them in the US. Below that is a piece I wrote on July 4th which addresses the same issue for undergraduates. I do not think many are aware how important this issue is. I am organizing hundreds of students at Virginia but for any traction to take place politically it needs to become a movement http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/american-university-presi_n_1662929.html?utm_hp_ref=college July, 4, 2012. Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Virginia, 9:00 a.m. One of these people is not like the others. That would be me. The five of us have arrived just in time for the opening of the naturalization ceremony. For the past 50 years, July 4th has not only marked our day of independence in the US, it has been the biggest day of the year at Monticello. Each year, a group of people have traveled up Jefferson’s little mountain to become US citizens. Today there will be over 80 people who will have a judge and many dignitaries speak to them and then perform the official act. The sweltering heat which has been around for over a week is not quite toxic yet. The Charlottesville municipal band is playing patriotic music. There seem to be hundreds of people who are helping with this event. They hand out programs, they drive buses, they take photos, and they are here to celebrate the day, and the place, and the man. Even for an old cynic like me it is hard not be moved even before the ceremony starts. I have chosen to wear a red and white checkered shirt, partly out of patriotism and partly to ingratiate myself  to my four guests. Paul, sitting next to me, is in a blue and white checkered shirt. So from a distance I think we must look like the American flag. This is kind of funny to me, because Paul and the three others I have brought with me are all from China. Two of them are visiting scholars, PhD students doing high level research. One of them is an architect. She is following in the footsteps of her father who is one of the experts in the world on vibrations and bridges, a topic I only know from watching the swaying bridge video from a long, long time ago in America. The other, I have just met when he got into my car. He is an engineer. When I ask him what he is working on he says “control theory’. As I have not a clue what this means I say “oh, I thought that would be more under political theory since isn’t that what the Chinese government does?” I am not known for my political correctness. But they all laugh and nod their heads, perhaps politely. The last is an undergraduate student in architecture who studies at a high school in China I have visited a number of times. It is, without a doubt, the most amazingly modern and overwhelmingly impressive campus I have seen, and I have spent 28 years visiting schools all around the world. For many years I served as director of international admission at the University of Virginia. I have had the best job in the world. I have travelled endlessly and every place I have been I have been warmly welcomed by people who care deeply and passionately about education. I have met and become friends with amazing people. Some of the students I have worked with are already changing the world in significant ways. And I had the honor to be around them. I cannot begin to tell you how much I have learned from them. I have been lucky enough to have done well in my academic career. But it has been talking to students and parents that have educated me how to live in the world. The ceremony begins. It is perfect. An honored judge in Virginia, an African American, reads out the words of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson lives today. The words I have read and heard almost daily at Uva come alive. I know this day is going to be something special. A few more short speeches and then the featured speaker steps to the mike. Nadia Comaneci is not as familiar a name to many as it used to be. She is the Romanian born gymnast, who, in 1976, scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic history. Since then aside from obtaining more gold in subsequent Olympics, she has become a person devoted to helping others. She has been voted one of the top 100 women of the 20th Century. In short, she is about as impressive as they come. She talked briefly about her Olympic experiences, but her focus was on the honored guests there to become US citizens. She addressed them with humility, humor, and insight. It was inspiring enough that it brought tears to my eyes. She told of her own road to US citizenship, and the need to have passion, and love, and energy and pride, and a complete commitment to making oneself and one’s country better, whether it be Romania or the US or any place else on earth: http://www.nbc29.com/story/18950306/monticello-naturalization-ceremony The crowd loved it. After that, the citizens were sworn in and then any of them who wanted to were encouraged to speak. Lots of them did and each had something inspiring to say. But I want to focus on just two. The first was a young man from Sudan. He had been working at Monticello for a number of years and was clearly a crowd favorite. He thanked everyone around for helping him obtain his dream. It was clear he was beloved by everyone there. And it was as clear as anything ever could be he loved America and loved the fact he had been given the chance to pursue his dreams. It was a magic moment. And the other person who moved me most was a woman from Zimbabwe. She spoke in the clipped Brit tones of people who have lived there most of their lives. What she talked about was how important it was for people in the US to remember that the vote in some places in the world was not something to be taken for granted. Instead, she said that because of the dictatorship in Zimbabwe she had to decide if she would take her life into her hands to even try to vote. She knew enough that she would likely be killed if she even came close to a polling station. She decided that since the outcome of the election was already determined, that casting a vote that would never be counted would not be worth her life. She came to this country and today she is a US citizen. And she promised all of us she will never miss a vote.  Ever. And I believe her. She was not quite scolding those of us born here, but she had every right (in all senses of the word) to do so. She said she could not understand why so few Americans voted. She said that they must not know that a vote is sacred, something never to be taken for granted. She said as citizens it was our duty to be a part of the process. And I for one think she is right. And she is one reason for my question. But there are a few more. Paul and I had wandered into the shade to get away from the blazing sun. I told him that since he and I knew the leadership at Monticello I would go ahead and talk to them afterward to see about meeting some of these inspirational people. A few years ago, I had taken Paul and a few other students from China to stand on the very steps in front of Monticello that the honored guests were on now. He was there as a representative of Uva to welcome the Ambassador from China to the US, Zhou Wenzhong, to Monticello. I brought him there as he was the first student from China ever to be honored with the privilege of living in one of the original Lawn rooms that are part of the Heritage Site that is the center of Uva. It is the highest honor any student at Uva can receive. He has helped me in innumerable ways to encourage any student who comes to study in the US to learn. By this I do not mean just get good grades because frankly the students from China lead the pack at Uva in academic performance by leaps and bounds. What he talked about was embracing the culture. He told students, on many occasions, that what they must learn above all is how to get involved outside of the classroom. To embrace leadership and service, those things Jefferson dreamt of when he founded Uva. In other words, he was the perfect embodiment of what a liberal arts education is all about. And this kind of education is uniquely American. It is what makes us the greatest educational destination in the world. But today, Paul stood in a different place. In May of this year he became a US citizen. He just left a great job in New York with one of the most prestigious investment banks in the country. He is currently back to help his mother who has just purchased a restaurant in town. She is a new entrepreneur opening her business in troubled times. She will be hiring US citizens to work. She is a job creator.  Paul will be off to Stanford for his MBA this August, but he is here to help her fix up the rather run down space they have. If any family embodies the American hopes and dreams, they are it. But he is not alone. Just two days ago, I received a desperate email from another Chinese student who is back home with her parents in China. She is famous in China for being one of the top students in the country. I would be more specific but to do so would reveal her identity. In any case, at Uva, she was the embodiment of the best that we expect from our students. She was a resident advisor for new students, a class trustee, and a top student in the second ranked business school in the US. She had been offered a great job in New York to start in September. She had achieved her dream. Until two days ago. She was informed that the law firm representing her company had not been fast enough. There are only 65,000 spaces this year set aside for foreign nationals to come and work in the US. And she was out of luck. All the spaces were gone. Our current policies have just ruined the dreams of one of the best students Uva has ever had. She, like Paul, is political, verbal, and cares immensely about both China and the US. And now her dreams have been crushed. Now she cannot be a part of this great nation of ours. And my follow up question is how as a country are we better off? We are turning away the best and brightest people from around the world who seem to have more commitment to being active citizens than some of us born and raised here. But I am not worried for her. Last summer I was lucky enough to be invited to a dinner with the third richest man in China. As is always the case, I brought a couple of students with me. They far outshine me and I get to bask in their reflected glow. It was no surprise that when this student who I am talking about was finished talking with him, she had his personal email and direct dial phone number and an instant offer of a job. You see, she is not the one I am worried about. It is us (and the US). Instead of adding to our economy and wealth, she will be one of the people many in our country are afraid of. She will be one of the people who will take a job from the US because it will be outsourced to her. Something is very wrong with this picture (a word I use for a purpose). I am not even sure she wants to be a US citizen. At the moment, probably not. But she will never have the chance to have that chance. This breaks my heart and a good deal of my faith in what we as a country are doing. We were built on the backs of immigrants and we still will be if we let more of them be a part of the American dream. Earlier this week, a great professor and great friend of mine (he has been given the best professor at Uva award), recommended a book to me. The book is Marilynn Robinson’s When I Was A Child I Read Books: http://www.amazon.com/When-Child-Read-Books-ebook/dp/B0071VUVSC/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1341465964&sr=1-1&keywords=when+i+was+a+child+i+read+books Here is the opening sentence of this wonderful book: Writing in 1870, Walt Whitman said, “America, if  eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without; for I see clearly that the combined foreign world could not beat her down”. It is the immigrants today who are teaching us about the importance of our vote. It is the immigrants who are the entrepreneurs and risk takers, innovators and job creators. It is the immigrants that are not allowed in who may be slowing our economy down, not threatening our way of life. They want to vote, to dream, and to make this country better. Why don’t we vote on this issue? Why don’t we vote at all? And I should add that my friend, the top teacher at Uva award winner, is an immigrant to the US too. The picture below is of those wonderful students that took time to be a part of America’s birthday on top of Thomas Jefferson’s mountain. They are standing next to his grave. For me, today at least, they are the patriots who would love to help this country grow and prosper. I wish more people in the country would agree with me. I am sure Thomas Jefferson would.

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  o.O Parke, I think your cause is just, but your method is here a mess. I'm going to address a few separate issues. Your question is a muddle, and suffers from tl;dr. You have two goals here, and they need to be separated. One is the question of how you can create a non-profit foundation or organizatoin devoted to the mobilization effort. The other is an attempt to mobilize some attention here on Quora. Right now, I have no idea what your initiative is, because you're asking me, pre-buy-in, to read a long series of articles that are badly formatted and dense. Compare that to what I have written here, and how it is presented, and the relative ease of grasping the information presented herein. Without an elevator pitch (i.e. the quick, basic gist summary of why I should care), you're not going to get most people, especially not people with busy schedules and deep contact lists, to sit still and do the work to get through all the barrage. On Quora: Trim off all the supporting information. Put that in a board post. (Create a board  with a catchy name for your initiative, and put the articles in separate posts on that board.) Promote the board and the posts as you are able, and enlist the aid of Quorans who are interested in your initiative, who can add their credits and upvotes into an attempt to gain more attention for your initiative. Elsewhere on the "socialwebz": Create a twitter account and a hashtag for the initiative. Create a page on Facebook and solicit "likes". Figure out how to create compelling entries on your initiative that people will want to share. If you don't know what some of these terms mean, you need to get a volunteer or a pay someone qualified to do this for you. If you have access to people at major institutions who have clout, then LinkedIn may be effective for you. If your prospective audience hangs out on Google+, you'll want to be there as well, but the norms of interaction are different there again. Do you really need a non-profit to do this? Or is this the form that "I realize I am not equipped to be the mobilizing force" is taking?